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Key Takeaways   Doing something stretching and challenging with your child can bring a closeness and bond that can only grow for years to come. Repetition and patience in fatherhood shows intention and presence. The window of time we get with our children is slowly closing. Be mindful of the trade-offs. The Four Smart Choices: Confront reality Grow capacity Fuel curiosity Create change   dadAWESOM...

"People are looking for purpose, but because their own needs seem so stark and so great, they don't get to it. It's a paradox that by focusing on other people's needs, you are going to find that your own needs will be met -- So, sometimes as parents it is important (wherever we are at) to say, 'Hey, let's go find a place to serve'"   Key Takeaways   Pray with your kids and teach them to pray Serve...

Key Takeaways     Acts of obedience can result in miracles, adventures, and boldness they've experienced as a family. Transparent money management can be the best instruction for kids. What children learn from their parents is more "caught than taught." The importance of being transparent with your children about finances far exceeds putting up a wall and believing it isn't beneficial. It's benefi...

Key Takeaways:   When the Skoogs were met with resistance preparing for a trip to China, they chose to continue to walk in God's calling for them. How one choice, of going to church to serve, turned into a legacy of leading people to Jesus. The impact that Tim left his kids as he modeled Kingdom prayer and adventure. The five principles/practices that the global church implements.   dadAWESOME   W...

"One of the greatest gifts that my parents and then my dad was able to give me was he wanted to expose me early on to the world, to the needs of the world, to the challenges of the world." "....he did that by taking us to some of the most difficult places in the world."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead...

"Servanthood is the way to the top. You will never outgrow serving…the more you have the more you're required to give."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Jason Vallotton   Recovering mental health, Cultivating spiritual fathers, a...

"God is very interested and motivated in the initiation of our children. It's what makes Him come alive. He has their best interests in mind. And when I put down my agenda, I got curious. I got responsive. The path that my children have chosen and the God has chosen for them is not what I would have chosen in so many ways, but being a student and being attentive and participating has changed every...

How do I feel about God? Am I satisfied? Comfortable? Cynical? Disappointed? Indifferent? Am I on fire? That torch in my hand will be passed to my children more substantially than any religious education. If I want my children to grow spiritually, I must stay alive."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their...

"I wanted him in this liminal space. My goal was to irreparably break his heart for the poor of the world so he'd never just be a spoiled, complacent American ever – He'd always be haunted, because those years are so formative… I just wanted to get in there, God's heart for the poor."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully aliv...

"I think that we are called to pour our life into what will be left behind…I'm convinced that what will be left behind is not structures we built, not things we implemented, but just people that we fathered – that's what's going to be left behind."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's aw...

"If your kids don't see the sabbath day as their favorite day of the week, then you're doing it wrong"   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Jeremy Pryor   Jeremy Pryor is a business owner, creative entrepreneur, author, podcaster and...

"Human beings were not meant to live in isolation and we weren't meant to live in a constant unknown. Learning to let it go (benevolent detachment)… is step one."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   John Eldredge John Eldredge is an a...

"I think that our best moments as families, our best moments as parents but also kids' best moments, are when we are given the capacity for meaningful action in some way. That is, we have some ability to have something matter that we do, AND we are exposed to meaningful risk – that is, it could go wrong and we could lose something."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We...

"So you're going to make some sort of mistakes. But fellas, I want you to know for sure you are absolutely dadAWESOME, because I got an awesome dad and I know I'm going to be an awesome dad because I'm a give it my all. Even if we're going the wrong way, I'm going the wrong way all the way, because I'm doing it because I love my kids and they're going to know that."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission...

You can't take out a pair of pliers and change wires and go, there you go, I told you, this is how we can fix you. We've got to cultivate what we want, and I think part of us as people looking back at our lives, I think if we don't get over ourselves early enough, then we take up all the energy to fix ourselves and we ignore to sow what we want in our children. It's amazing when the kid starts dri...

"We have to break the spirit, disciple these kids and send them on risky, crazy adventures so that they can get their own stories so they can keep telling the miraculous amazingness of how good and amazing our Father is."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |  ...

"the best way that I can be a strong father is to be the the most profound loving husband I can be... Children need to know to the degree that they're able that those two people. Love each other deeply"   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Face...

"Why is it that people, you give your prime time to people you hardly know? And the kids and I get the leftovers?"   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Dick Foth   Dick Foth is an author, storyteller, and popular speaker. He holds a ma...

"I just want to pour in... I don't want to be the guy who's over on the couch. Whose mailed it in and thinks that everything's going to be great. I want to be 100 percent in the game. Are they on my calendar or are they on my prayer list? Are they people I'm spending time with? I just want to keep honing..."   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about help...

"The world is crying out for men and dads who are on fire. That love what they're doing and their giving it their all"   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Chad Johnson   After twenty-eight years of joyful marriage, author Chad Johns...

dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kids to God's awesomeness.  |  YouTube  |   Instagram  |  Facebook   Robert Lewis   Few have had as significant an impact on discipling men in the past forty years than Robert Lewis. As a pastor, speaker, and author, Robert's passion for leading men to grow in biblic...

"sons are looking for the substance of life, as I hope to prove they hunger for the best things and in the absence of these anchors, sons drift. But when loving dads add these into the manhood mix, their sons flourish. They become noble men, gentlemen, men of valor, principled men, knights.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live full...

And you could do that as an awesome dad to just hover. I think that's the first thing God did over the Earth. He just hovered. Hover over each person your family like, what is kid number one need that I could only uniquely provide them. Because if they need a ride, they could get Uber to provide. They'd give em a ride. But just say, is there something else they uniquely need that only I could prov...

40 new experiences; things I've never done in my life... Instead of moving towards comfort and rhythms and things I've already done before, I am intentionally adding new things because I want to stay curious. I want to be a learner... I want to stay humble. I want to be in this growth mindset.   dadAWESOME   We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live f...

"Peace is the atmosphere of heaven... peace is the oxygen of heaven. It's everywhere in heaven. It is just like righteousness, peace and joy are the kingdom of God. It already belongs to us, Jesus said, I give you my peace, I leave you, not as the world gives..."   dadAWESOME We're on a mission to add LIFE to the dad life. We're passionate about helping dads live fully alive as they lead their kid...